Opened 4 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
#4940 closed defect (nonchimerax)
How to access ChimeraX remotely from macbook (OS mojave)?
Reported by: | Owned by: | Tom Goddard | |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | Platform | Version: | |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
Notify when closed: | Platform: | all | |
Project: | ChimeraX |
Description
Hi, I am trying to access ChimeraX remotley using my mac book pro. The ChimeraX is installed on linux machine. Upon launching, the chimeraX GUI appears and suddenly disappears with the following error message: "ChimeraX requires OpenGL graphics version 3.3. Your computer graphics driver provided version 1.4, Try updating your graphics driver". My mac currently has macOS mojave version 10.14.6 and it seems it does not have OpenGL graphics version 3.3 required to display chimeraX remotely. Is there any way out to fix the problem? Not sure if updating my macbook to Catalina or BigSur is going to help! Best Rayees
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 4 years ago
Component: | Unassigned → Platform |
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Owner: | set to |
Platform: | → all |
Project: | → ChimeraX |
Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 by , 4 years ago
Resolution: | → nonchimerax |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
ChimeraX cannot make remote display of OpenGL work -- that is an X window system problem handling OpenGL.
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I guess you have X Windows (XQuartz) running on your Mac and are hoping
that X remote display from Linux to the Mac will work with ChimeraX.
Unfortunately X Windows remote display of 3D OpenGL graphics has not
worked reliably since the days Silicon Graphics computers in the 1990s.
It is possible to get it to work between two Linux machines with identical
OpenGL drivers. But it would be a near miracle if the XQuartz
implementation of X Windows on Mac could handle the OpenGL from a Linux
machine.
The sensible approach is to run ChimeraX directly on your MacBook Pro. We
don't recommend remote display even when it works because rendering speed
is likely to be poor.